Christian Quote by David Barton

The Founders never intended to separate Christianity from government, only to keep a single denomination from running the nation.

— David Barton

The Founders wanted to protect the church from an encroaching state, not the other way around.

— Mike Johnson

When our Founding Fathers passed the First Amendment, they sought to protect churches from government interference. They never intended to construct a wall of…

— Ronald Reagan

The Constitution of the U.S. forbids everything like an establishment of a national religion.

— James Madison

It is evident from their writings that the Founding Fathers would never have tolerated the separation that we have embraced today. They knew that…

— David Barton

The Founders believed that pluralism survived only within the concept of religious liberty espoused by American Christianity.

— David Barton

Freedom of religion, as the Founding Fathers saw it, was not just the right to associate oneself with a certain denomination but the right…

— Norman Cousins

Whatever America's founders believed about Christianity - and they believed a wide range of things - they clearly rejected the idea of an established…

— Parker Palmer

The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community.

— Sandra Day O'Connor

The real object of the First Amendment was not to countenance, much less advance Mohammedanism, or Judaism or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity; but ...…

— Joseph Story

“When the First Amendment was finally approved, it contained two separate clauses on religion, each with an independent scope of action. The first clause…

— David Barton

[The founding fathers] believed that freedom of expression included religious views and beliefs, so long as the government did not force people to worship…

— John Cornyn